Lek Kadeli, a top former EPA career official in the research office (ORD), is joining the management team for EPA's toxics office, bolstering the office as it ramps up to implement the revised Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the Senate prepares to consider Alexandra Dunn, the Trump administration's nominee to lead the office.

Kadeli has joined the immediate office of EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OSCPP) as acting deputy assistant administrator (AA) for management, according to a Nov. 26 email to all OCSPP staff, first cited in a Nov. 28 blog from the environmental law firm Bergeson & Campbell.